Suggestions for curriculum development with teachers on In-Service courses are presented and emphasise the value of Process approaches to teaching and learning with gifted pupils. These suggestions are based upon trials with children, students and teachers in ordinary classrooms over a period of several years. The model of teaching presented emphasises the development of pupils' ability to think efficiently and communicate those thoughts succinctly in the context of the usual subject contents. The process approach is found to be particularly motivating and necessary for gifted pupils to prevent them from under functioning, for it offers them ‘Cognitive Stretch’.
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